Global Dialogues

Juan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of six novels, including The Sound of Things Falling (2011)—which won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Gregor von Rezzori Prize, and the Alfaguara Prize—and two collections of stories, The All Saints’ Day Lovers (2015) and Songs for the Flames (2021). In 2019 his The Shape of the Ruins (2018) was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Vásquez is also the translator into Spanish of works by E. M. Forster, John Hersey, and Victor Hugo, among others. His own books have been translated into more than 20 languages. He lives in Bogotá, Colombia.

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